Welcome to the MusikMesse vintage 2007 ! Once again a "tiny bitsy german town" well-known for its sausages is going to host the most gigantic music show in this good old Europe. Of course the whole MacMusic team is busy to get you informed about this major trade show in this "MusikMesse 2007 Special Report" and in the MacMusic Daily News Section.

GForce Software has announced that the Universal Binary update for impOSCar will be released tomorrow (March 28th). This update is free to users who purchased and registered their instrument after the 1st October 2006... If you purchased impOSCar before 1st October 2006, you will need to update to the Universal ImpOSCar via the shop for £13.99 (plus VAT), €19.99 (plus VAT) or $26.00.

NuGen Audio has announced the release of new SEQ Series (SEQ1 and SEQ2) Linear Phase mixing and mastering equalizers.

The SEQ series EQ's are designed to deliver transparent, scaleable, connective EQ without the phase warping and phase smearing artefacts common in traditional digital EQ, giving a clearer sound and sharper transients.

Metric Halo is pleased to announce that major updates for ChannelStrip|TDM and ChannelStrip|RTAS are now shipping. ChannelStrip 2.2 is a Universal Binary, and supports Pro Tools 6.4 - 7.3 on both PPC and Intel Macs. It also provides complete support for HD|Accel DSPs and PCIe cards on all Mac platforms.

New features include :

• Support for plug-in clip-light and system wide clip indicator reset
• Support for Accel chips and 192k on TDM Accel systems
• Complete page table support for all supported control surfaces
• Universal Binary support for TDM and RTAS
• 16/8/4 mono instances per Accel chip at 1x/2x/4x rates

Notable bug fixes include :

• Fixed Gate bug at 96k on Mix and HD systems
• Fixed lack of support of PCIe systems
• Fixed DSP chip allocation bug
• Fixed window resize bug

The 2.2 update is freely available to all registered OS X users of ChannelStrip.

Native Instruments has announced the TRAKTOR Tutorial DVD, a new multimedia workshop that enables DJs to get the most out of TRAKTOR 3 DJ software. With a comprehensive video tutorial (more than three hours of high-resolution video), artist interviews and special workshop content on the disc, the DVD allows TRAKTOR users of all experience levels to get to the heart of the software and utilize its advanced creative capabilities to the fullest extent.

English language version will be available in stores and from the NI Online Shop in May. For more information, please visit their web site.

FabFilter has just announced RTAS versions of FabFilter Timeless, Twin, Volcano, Simplon, and One. With this release, all plug-ins will also receive small bug fixes and updates for the AU and VST versions. In addition, FabFilter One will be extended with MIDI program change handling, improved knob behavior and interactive help hints.

The final release is currently planned for the end of April and it will be free for existing users. Note that FabFilter will demonstrate the new RTAS versions at Musikmesse (hall 5.1, D48).

After posting a demo of their software compression "Solera" and EQ "Epure", Flux offer us a freeware called "Bitter Sweeter" which is a dynamic processor who can deal with the transients.

Bitter Sweeter is available in VST, RTAS and UB formats, the Au support is still under development !

VirSyn has just released a new virtual synth called Poseidon. At first sight it looks like a simple structured analog "Oscillator-Filter" synthesizer with all controls visible at once... but the real power is working under the hood : the oscillator is the same as the spectral modelling sound generator of their CUBE and the variable slope Filter is a completely new design based on the unique F-domain synthesis.

Main features :

- Spectral modelling oscillator
- Time machine
- Timbre control
- F-Domain Filter
- Spatializer
- Resynthesis
- Effects
- Arpeggiator
- Standalone and plugin

Poseidon is available now for Mac OS X (UB) in VST, RTAS and AU formats for €199.

Sinevibes has just released the Space Oscillator Audio Unit plug-in for Mac OS X, which is a unique combination of a synthesizer and a sound processor. At its core, it has a unison oscillator with a spacious stereo sound, that can react to incoming audio in many exciting ways and is simultaneously controllable by a flexible step sequencer. Combined with many other interesting audio shaping tools, Space Oscillator allows to create new sonic textures from intergalactic strums to droid speech.

Features :

- Spacious stereo unison oscillator with wide detune range and variable frequency stepping
- Audio-triggered envelope generator
- Advanced step sequencer with lag processor
- Ring modulator, bit reduction and resampling
- Intuitive user interface
- Extensible collection of fa ...

The Amazing Rolo has just released the Wii Loop Machine software. Basically it's a system for using the wireless Wii remote to sync, control, and manipulate loops in real time on your Mac ! And you know what, it's free so if you have a Mac with OSX (10.4.8 or 10.4.9 recommended) and bluetooth and a Wii controller then you should give it a try ;-)